Surely the biggest omission from the jubilee book list is William Golding’s Lord of the Flies? But I guess a committee that thinks ER Braithwaite’s To Sir, With Love is a major novel is hardly going to buy into Golding’s more dystopian view of children (The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen’s jubilee book list, 18 April).
Michael Bath
Rochester, Kent
• No Graham Greene in the Big Jubilee Read? But The Bone People is included? Thanks, “experts” – now I know what not to read.
Jonathan Taylor
Fowey, Cornwall
• Discussing Mrs Queen’s likely public participation in her own jubilee celebrations, you note that “there are many steps to negotiate” at St Paul’s Cathedral (Sussexes invited to appear on Buckingham Palace balcony for jubilee, 19 April). Might one benefit to us, the common people, of this absurd celebration of privilege be a greater awareness of the access needs of the many, as well as the few? I live in hope.
Fiona Collins
Carrog, Sir Ddinbych
• I hope that Priti Patel had the opportunity to watch episode three of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, where she would have heard the wife pertinently remark: “Me not having a brilliant alternative to your terrible idea does not then make your terrible idea a good idea.”
John Rathbone
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
• Never mind the controversy over the accents (‘Insulting!’: viewers criticise accents in ‘canoe man’ drama, 19 April), why on earth was the programme not called A Man, a Plan, a Canoe, Panama?
Allan Forsyth
Salhouse, Norfolk
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